INSTALLATION
Spirit installation manual
page 25
Connect mains cable
Attach the (thick) mains cable directly to an earthed power outlet (three phases or one phase,
depending on model and type) or to a suitable plug (see Figure 19).
3-phase
1-phase
USA
Phase/
Live
P1
brown
black
P2
black
brown
P3
grey
Neutral
N
blue
blue
white*
Earth
E
yellow/
green
yellow/
green
green
Figure 19. Shown here is the 3-phase plug (3P+N+E 16A 400V) used in Europe.
* The white lead in the USA cable must be hooked up to the anti-phase 115Vac live (anti-phase w.r.t.
the black 115Vac live).
Danger!
When your machine was ordered without a mains plug or when the mains plug has been removed to
fit the cable through a small countertop opening, have a qualified electrician connect your Spirit to the
mains.
The yellow/green or green lead must be connected to earth to properly ground the machine. This is
essential to work safely with the machine.
Note!
If your machine is equipped with a
5 wire cable
(3 phases 230Vac with 120° phase shift): blue is
neutral, grey, brown and black are phases (hot; live), yellow/green is Earth.
If your machine is equipped with a
3 wire cable
:
Australia and New Zealand
(single phase 220-240Vac): brown is phase (hot; live), blue is neutral,
yellow/green is Earth.
USA and Canada
(2 phases 110-120Vac with 180° phase-shift)
:
white is phase (hot; live), black is
phase (hot; live), green is Earth.
Connect all wires to the appropriate outlet.
Note on phase shift of 110-120Vac!
When you want to use your machine in a 110-120Vac environment, check whether the mains is a 180
degrees phase shift (most houses) or a 120 degrees phase shift (most commercial buildings). You can
measure the resulting voltage between two phase leads of the mains with a common voltage meter
set to measure Vac. The resulting voltage should be 220-240Vac. With a 120 degrees phase shift you
will measure 201-208Vac. The machine will work fine with a resulting voltage of 208-240Vac*, a
resulting voltage lower than 208Vac may lead to erratic behaviour of the machine.
If your location is powered with three-phase 115Vac with a 120 degrees phase shift we suggest to use
a 10% booster (a so-called auto-transformer or buck-booster) on two leads of the three phase mains
which will raise 201Vac to 221Vac (and 208Vac to 239Vac).
Have a qualified electrician install the
necessary equipment as the booster must be able to supply 33-45 Amps
.
* With lower resulting voltage, the heating power is reduced w.r.t. what is listed in table 3. At 208Vac
about 18% power is lost (thus 736W for the coffee boilers (was 900W) and 4907W (was 6000W in a
Triplette) or 3925W (was 4800W in a Duette) for the steam boiler).
grey
black
yellow/
green
brown
blue
